Snake Walk with Harvey Mandel
Some musicians are slippery. You think you’ve got them pegged, then they turn a corner and you’re lost again. They play with the greats but they’re not just...
Interview
ALICE NOT JOHN Episode 9: A Fictional Radio Transmission Guest: Frank Dommert (A-Musik)
ALICE NOT JOHNEpisode 9: A Fictional Radio TransmissionGuest: Frank Dommert (A-Musik)Host: Joeri Bruyninckx A conversation I overheard in a record store: Customer: “Do you have Coltrane?”Record shop owner:...
Universe ’71: Welsh Ultra-Rare Heavy Rock Unearthed
The incredibly rare, self-titled album by Universe is finding its way back onto shelves, thanks to a recent reissue from Ancient Grease Records. What's even more fascinating is...
Martin Saint’s ‘Seekers’: Film Noir Letters from the Fog
Martin Saint's latest solo record, 'The Seekers,' hums like an exposed wire, warm to the touch and faintly dangerous. These are songs born in solitude but made to...
Edmonton’s Original Punks: The Nerve
There’s something about the Canadian prairie that makes good bands weird and weird bands unforgettable. Isolation breeds invention, but it also breeds a particular kind of aggression. Maybe...
Jonathan Richman Reflects on His New Album ‘Only Frozen Sky Anyway’
Jonathan Richman’s 'Only Frozen Sky Anyway' isn't a loud declaration. It is something rarer: a quiet and cohesive unfolding of songs that seem to arise from the atmosphere...
BUNNIES Interviewed: Inside the ‘Horror Spectrum’
Somewhere between a swamp hallucination and a small-town government meeting gone to seed, BUNNIES have carved a record that gurgles and spits its way through what they simply...
Brooklyn’s Tokens: Beyond ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’
Brooklyn high school corridors in 1955 buzzed with a quiet magic. There, a quartet dubbed the Linc Tones, featuring young Neil Sedaka, Jay Siegel, and Hank Medress among...
Stereocilia’s Journey Through ‘Phases’
Amid the deepening thickets of ambient minimalism and experimental drone, few voices have remained as defiantly personal and unfalteringly consistent as that of John Scott, the Bristol-based composer...
Sean Imboden’s ‘Communal Heart’: A Quiet Subversion of the Big Band Canon
By the time the final echoes of 'Portal Passage' fade on Sean Imboden’s debut big band album, 'Communal Heart,' a subtle yet profound recalibration has occurred. As the...